The duty of memory and its relationship to history in Paul Ricoeur
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memory, history, justiceAbstract
This article examines the idea of the duty of memory in Paul Ricoeur’s Memory, History, Forgetting. Ricoeur proposes the conception of the duty of memory as a duty of justice. For Ricoeur, memory is not what we remember individually, but memory is a representation of the past that requires support from the community. And if memory requires support from the other, what one remembers can be justice or injustice to the other. Also, memory is essentially related to history, because it is only in history that one can affirm the truth with others. In this way, history allows us to recognize traumatic memories that are not remembered by the community. In conclusion, this article argues that the duty of memory is not a duty to remember a particular fact, but it is a duty to do justice to the memory of the other.
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